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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From súigh (“to suck”) + -aire.
Pronunciation
Noun
súmaire m (genitive singular súmaire, nominative plural súmairí)
- sucker (someone or something that sucks)
- bloodsucker, vampire
- Synonyms: súmaire fola, vaimpír
- parasite, leech (useless person who gives nothing back)
- leech (annelid); (specifically) horse-leech (Haemopis sanguisuga)
- (geology) sinkhole, sump (hollow or pit)
- Synonyms: poll slogaide, poll súraic
- whirlpool (swirling body of water)
- slow, dilatory, listless person
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| súmaire
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shúmaire
after an, tsúmaire
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- “súmaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “súgmaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language